''Final Vinyl'' is the only album released by English
new wave band
the Teardrops. It was released in January 1980,
shortly before the band dissolved.
The band were formed by
Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton, England in 1976 by singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto. They are regarded as a seminal influence on the Manchester music scene, the independen ...
bassist
Steve Garvey
Steven Patrick Garvey (born December 22, 1948) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres from 1969 to 1987.
Garvey was the National ...
, ex-
the Fall bassist
Tony Friel
Tony Friel (born in Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire, 4 May 1958)[Karl Burns
Karl Burns (born Carl Birtles,1958 in Manchester, England) is a British musician best known as the drummer for the Fall, featuring in many incarnations of the band between 1977 and 1998.
Although several musicians have rejoined the Fall havi ...](_blank)
, who also was in
the Fall and was in the Teardrops, but was not credited, and Dave Price; they added Steve Garvey in the project called as that probably stage name, releasing one single, "Come Back to Me", in May 1980.
Steve Huey, of
AllMusic
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, declared it "reflects its members' involvement in such groups as the Buzzcocks and the Fall", while Ira Robbins, of ''
Trouser Press
''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to ...
'', wrote it "is very inconsistent—too much mucking about in the studio ruins the decent tracks with spurious talking and noises—but there is some fine music here that hovers between the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols."
The first disc song, "Everything's O.K.", is the other version of the B-side song of the "
Seeing Double" single, "Teardrops and Heartaches".
Track listing
A-side
#"Everything's O.K."
#"No One Is Innocent"
#"Hey Count De Bok Bok"
#"Teenage Vice"
B-side
#"Meet the Teardrops"
#"Some People"
#"Slow Glass"
#"Fackin Kant"
#"Time to Go"
Personnel
*
Steve Garvey
Steven Patrick Garvey (born December 22, 1948) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres from 1969 to 1987.
Garvey was the National ...
*
Tony Friel
Tony Friel (born in Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire, 4 May 1958)[Karl Burns
Karl Burns (born Carl Birtles,1958 in Manchester, England) is a British musician best known as the drummer for the Fall, featuring in many incarnations of the band between 1977 and 1998.
Although several musicians have rejoined the Fall havi ...](_blank)
and Dave Price)
* Trev Waine
* Helen Barbrook
References
External links
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1980 debut albums
New wave albums by English artists
Post-punk albums by English artists